utpal basu

Critiques and comments not only on the quality of the photo but also

on the artistic quality of the carvings are invited.

The shot was taken from the top of the Matanga Hill at Hampi.Looking

down from the top of the hill,one can see in its immediate vicinity,

the ruins of the Hampi Bazaar on one side and that of the Achyutaraya

Temple on the other and beyond the immediate vicinity of the

hill,scattered over miles and miles of hilly,rugged terrain

interspersed here and there with lush-green rain-forests,ruins of

numerous temples,monolithic-statues,covered baths,aqueducts,bazaars

and palaces and one's thoughts inveriably turn philosophical as one

sadly ponders over the veracity of the philosophical axiom about the

pettiness,futility and transitoriness of all human achievements.

Does the phgotograph throw any new light on the intricate artistic

sensibility of the artisans of the Vijayanagara Empire?

Think of the statue carved out of a single piece of granite with the

help of only primitive tools like chisels and ordinary files and

hammers.